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As Hollywood prepared to adapt George Gershwin’s folk opera to the screen in the late 1950s, jazz artists such as Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:02

  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
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The third and final hour devoted to the music of the Swingle Singers paired with the original compositions by Rossini, Debussy, Gershwin, Sondheim,...

Bought by KPVL, KUCO, KENW, and WMRT


  • Added: Dec 30, 2009
  • Length: 56:56
  • Purchases: 4
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This week, we’re continuing our exploration of songs from the Roaring 20s with a look at 1921, a year that spawned songs like “Ain’t We Got Fun,” “...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Pianist Boaz Sharon plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; plus the Martinu Quartet plays Dvorak

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KPOV, WCNY, RadioFreePalmer, KWAX and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6

  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Caption: Andrew Litton, Credit: Steve J. Sherman
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is a masterpiece of procrastination. Gershwin barely finished the work in time for the world premiere. In fact...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Jul 25, 2009
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ann Ronnel, composer of "Willow Weep For Me", Credit: Public Domain
Not every composer had the extensive catalog of George Gershwin or Irving Berlin. This week, we’ll explore songwriters like Ann Ronnel, Brooks Bowm...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Jean-Yves Thibaudet
There’s an undeniably American element running through much of George Gershwin’s music. There’s also something almost street-smart about his music...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: :22
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Many American composers picked up the tradition of writing concert overtures from their predecessors and gave them a distinctly American personalit...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, WDPR, and KWAX


  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 4
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Since Haydn, the string quartet has always been one of those genres that tested the mettle of any serious composer. You'll hear some of the best of...

Bought by KWAX, Rhythm & News Service, WDPR, and KWAX


  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 57:52
  • Purchases: 4
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What are your plans for summer? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm we greet summer with music by Johan de Meij, George Gershwin, Jan van der Roost, a...

Bought by WRTI, KWAX, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMFA, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: The Art of Fugue Painting, Credit: JeanLuc Feugeas
Which musical form has a subject, an answer, and episodes of development? The fugue. On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we take a look at the fugue...

Bought by WQCS, GCR (Global Community Radio), Interlochen Public Radio, KVNO, WBAA and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Debbie Duncan, Credit: Ann Marsden
Minnesota Voices Certain Standards features Debbie Duncan on a George & Ira Gershwin song entitled "I Loves You Porgy". Arne Fogel also gives the ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Arne Fogel, Credit: John Whiting
Minnesota Voices-Certain Standards features Arne Fogel on a George and Ira Gershwin song entitled "Embraceable You". Host, Arne Fogel also gives th...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lil Hardin
This program features the pianists who were instrumental in melding popular music and jazz in the 1920s. Without their influence, American’s origin...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Paul Whiteman
With today’s hindsight, bandleader Paul Whiteman has been both criticized and praised for his influence in early jazz. Yet, he was the first to hav...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we are opening another song book in the series that Ella Fitzgerald and Norman Granz put together in the 1950s and 1960s-tonight, it's G...

Bought by Bandon Community Radio, WPCA-LP, WEZU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KKRN and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:16
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Fred Ahlert
When you hear about composers of American popular music in the 1920s and early '30s, the names that are remembered are Cole Porter, George and Ira ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Violinist Joshua Bell was excited when his record label asked him to record music by two "great melody writers," Leonard Bernstein and George Gersh...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :36
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Andrew Litton, Credit: Steve J. Sherman
George Gershwin could be called a "What If" composer. "What if" he had lived longer than just 39 years, what more would he have written? And, "Wh...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Jul 25, 2009
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 1
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Vernon Duke immigrated to America as a classical composer, and became one of the finest songwriters in popular music. This week, we’ll explore his ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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This week Edmund Stone honors movie composers in the same family.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00

  • Added: Jun 14, 2020
  • Length: 57:04